Roast Medical staff
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PerfectFooty
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Probably pressured by the coaching group like any club.
Geelong will be doing the same thing right now
Geelong will be doing the same thing right now
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PerfectFooty
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Also i think Gawn was on time, not sure how you give him form though
Bluelegs
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In regards to the shoulder though, not that it went off. But we thought he'd comeback the collingwood game, not the week earlier and it was a big surprise to see him named against Brisbane
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Gawn being trash in general didnt help
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Topkent
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I believe there is a second level competition around that players can build confidence and form in.. ah well itll come to me one day
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That what i thought at the time, but in review he had like 10 weeks to regain from in the AFL and played like 1 good game. I guess he could have dominated at VFL level, but i don't think it would have translated when he came back in.
But yeah i agree completely with VFL first and always have, but this max one i don't know
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Re medical team. I would most if not all on here are far from qualified and too far removed from the actual cases in point to have any credibility when it comes assumptions and comments so I wont enter into that debate. As far as coming back through the AFL, I agree the players at times may come back the the AFL better off after a stint in VFL to gain form. I can only assume that the alternative player replacement from VFL stepping up wasn't a better option - ergo, might as well gain form in AFL. Hindsight, particularly in Gawns case, was that assumption may have been incorrect.
Put simply, we rolled the dice, and in most cases, we lost.
Unfortunately, between our injury situation, and the way our season was shaping, we pretty much had to, lest we drop out of contention much earlier (mightn't have been a bad thing in hindsight)
Unfortunately, between our injury situation, and the way our season was shaping, we pretty much had to, lest we drop out of contention much earlier (mightn't have been a bad thing in hindsight)
Nup, would of been much harder to beat Port without Viney, his first qtr helped set up the win. Might have finished the season sooner that it actually did. Maybe could of given Gawn a breather with the success of TMac and Pedo but it wouldn't replace a Max coming off a full pre season. Players play through injuries and soreness all the time.
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They would have helped.
But, as I recall, it was a really dumb decision in the D50 with just a couple of minutes to go that cost us in the end.
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I could probably think of 50 moments this year like that, any one of which would have been enough to either give us the % or the win to get us into finals.
Supermercado
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This is a 2007 thread all over again. Needs more Bohdan Babijczuk.
ThePuppetMaster
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Add Jones/ Salem/ Watts too
Theseventhhamster
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Medical staff went to s**t when we hired a dickhead "sports scientist" who thought he knew more than the club doctor. He should never have survived bringing in Dank.
I knew Viney was going to stuff his foot up - just knew it. Medical staff should have just told Viney "talk to the hand" when he started saying he was right to play. Viney's heroics about coming back early were decisive in what happened. Add to that a clearly not ready Gawn and you have a big part of the problem. I don't know how to apportion the blame between players, coaches and medicos, but I'd have to say we didn't handle those two guys well at all.
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I don't think we handled Watts well either - hamstring tightness after two games in 6 days and we try and get him up for the Eagles game which is another 6 day break and the result has him out for another month.
